Britney Spears, in the heels of such performers as Celine Dion and Elton John, late Friday opened a two-year sojourn in Sin City with a dazzling performance to a crowd of adoring fans. The former enfant terrible of US pop wowed some 4,600 fans with…
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The families of Israeli victims of Palestinian attacks appealed Monday against the imminent release of long-serving Palestinian prisoners as part of US-brokered peace talks, media reported. The Supreme Court has always rejected such appeals. Israeli…
Here’s a funny thing I was just thinking: Imagine if the EV–gasmobile story were reversed and EVs were the dominant type of vehicle while gasmobiles were just becoming mainstream. Imagine also that gasmobiles only had a range of 60–80 miles, but…
Syria is “unlikely” to meet a December 31 deadline to move its most dangerous chemical arms out of the country, the United Nations acknowledged for the first time Saturday. The UN and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said…
Today, a judge in New York ruled that the NSA’s collection of phone metadata of United States citizens is, in fact, lawful. This ruling—the result of a suit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union against the United States Government—comes…
Yesterday, New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s website published a press release to announce that the City was going to start accepting bids for pay-by-app parking systems, bringing one of the metropolitan area’s biggest headaches into the 21st…
Four American military personnel have been detained in Libya and are being held by the government there, the US State Department said Friday. “We can confirm that four US military personnel are currently being held in Libyan government custody,” said…
American schoolchildren were slaughtered in a hail of bullets after packing like sardines into a bathroom in a doomed bid to escape the murderous rampage of Newtown gunman Adam Lanza. Harrowing details about last year’s mass shooting were revealed on…
Last year the biggest tech failure was Color, this year that award goes to BlackBerry (though it could have been Healthcare.gov). I’m sure you can agree with me when I say the entirety of 2013 has just been terrible for the company. But let’…
Target has publicly confirmed that the encrypted debit card PIN information of customers was, in fact, stolen during the company’s very public security breach this past month. The break-in previously was thought to be limited to only the secure information…